News Brief

2/3/2013, Shevat 23, 5773

Killing Continues in Aleppo

Syrian opposition groups reported, Sunday, that at least 15 people, including children, have been killed in Syrian Air Force attacks on the residential Al-Ansari neighborhood of the northern population center of Aleppo. Activists in the area said people were trapped in the rubble of buildings that collapsed due to the airstrikes.

The state-run SANA news agency reported that former parliament member Ibrahim Azzouzz, his wife and two daughters were shot to death by rebels in the Sheikh Said neighborhood, near the city's airport, which rebels captured on Saturday.